Thursday, November 19, 2015

Testing The Boss - Release Blitz

Testing
the Boss

by Mallory Crowe

Billionaires in the City # 6

Releasing: November 19, 2015

BLURB:

Billionaire Luke Devereaux gets
what he wants and what he wants right now is to bring down the shady
organization threatening his family. Teaming up with the FBI is his only
option--even if that option comes in the sultry Evelyn Price, the ice-princess
who's all business.

Refusing to be distracted by the sexy, rich playboy, Evelyn forces herself to
stay focused on the case, gearing up for the criminal takedown of her entire
career. As the enemy closes in with Evelyn as its next target, it's up to Luke
to keep them out of danger. The more they work to protect each other, and fight
for control, the harder it is to resist their undeniable attraction.

And the one thing Evelyn has learned from working with him is that Luke
Devereaux gets what he wants.

He leaned forward and she realized that she’d made a horrible
mistake. “Oh really? Think I can’t handle it?”

Great. Now she’d activated his competitive side. “Oh, I think you
can handle it. Far away from me, though.”

“So I’m free for the night?”

“No! I’m going to be there for the damn phone call, Luke.”

“So we are working out together?” She opened her mouth to say
no again, but he cut her off. “Because you normally work out right now and
we’ve got nothing better to do. Unless you have any bright ideas?”

She had at least fifty reasons why she didn’t want to work out with
Luke, and every single one had to do with not wanting him in her space. But she
wasn’t about to admit it. “You don’t even have workout clothes with you,” she
settled on.

He held up his duffel. “I always have workout clothes with me. I
have a treadmill in my office.”

“We’re not working out,” she repeated.

He cocked his head and considered her for a moment. “Do I make you
uncomfortable, Agent Price?”

Those blue eyes were on her like a spotlight and she racked her
brain for a good lie. Because he did make her uncomfortable. Incredibly,
intensely uncomfortable in the worst way. “Of course not.”

“Then give me the address and we’ll go.”

“You’re not a member of my gym.”

“I’m a member of whatever gym I want to be. You just give me three
minutes alone with the manager and I’ll be in.”

She snorted. “I doubt that. I’m the manager. I have a home gym.”

“The exclusive club Evelyn? Well, now I really want to go.”

About the Author:

Mallory Crowe has lived in Michigan her whole life
and has been in love with romance ever since she’d skip to the end of every
novel, just to make sure the hero and heroine survived and ended up together.
She lives with her husband and three dogs. When she’s not writing, she’s
spending too much time in front of the TV, hiking, or working with various
animal rescues.

4 - I used to have a little room dedicated
to my writing, but I've moved into the living room. I like the light from the
windows and the high ceilings. It's a much more relaxing environment.

5 - My life as a CPA was never what I'd
call luxurious. BUT the best work hotel I ever got to stay at was a Mississippi
casino that had a hot tub in the room. I wasn't the one who booked the room, so
I don't know how that worked out, but it was the best work trip ever.

What
is your favorite quote or scene from TESTING THE BOSS?

Before I was even finished with TOUCHING, I
had this amazing scene plotted out in my head. Luke and Evelyn are stuck in her
apartment waiting for someone to call, and Luke wants her to give him a
fighting lesson. The banter between the two, the tension, everything about that
scene is amazing (I only hope it translates to the page like it did in my
mind). Needless to say, it ends with one character straddling the other...

What
was your hardest obstacle to overcome while writing TESTING THE BOSS?

This was actually the first book that I've
written as a full time author. I was privileged enough to leave my day job earlier this year and I was very afraid that
I was hardwired to only work well under pressure (getting home at 7pm and then
pounding away on the computer until I pass out every night). But I was able to
keep my schedule and, thanks to my type A personality, I've managed to over
plan my next year, so I still get to work under pressure! Never a dull moment
over here...

Care
to share your inspiration for Evelyn and Luke?

While some of my characters are inspired
from other people, Luke and Evelyn were both very organic. When I started the
Devereaux books, I knew there would be three brothers and Luke was almost a
place holder when I was plotting the series. But as the books were written, he
came into his character as the more charismatic brother. Same with Evelyn. She
just happened to be the FBI agent in TRUSTING THE BOSS and while writing
TOUCHING, it became apparent that she and Luke would become an item. So then
her character was based off of him. He was so loud and confident that he needed
an equally strong counterpart. And her character came from that.

Business-school
student April Morgan is ready to graduate--from school, from the secretary
pool, and from never-gonna-happen fantasies involving Sam Hunt, her hunky
billionaire boss. But when Sam’s girlfriend of the week pushes her too far,
April finds herself quitting on the spot with only a mountain of student loan
debt to keep her company. In steps Sam’s worst enemy, his father, with a job
offer she can't refuse.

Sam was born into privilege, but refused to live
life with a silver spoon in his mouth. After a decade of hard work, he’s on the
verge of taking his business public and proving to his tyrannical family that
he can make it without their help. When he finds out that April is working for
his father, he knows she’s been turned into a pawn in his father’s twisted
games.

Despite Sam’s warnings, April is determined to
prove she doesn’t need him to make in New York City. But when she finds
documents that could lead to Sam losing everything he’s worked for, April
realizes that she and Sam have to work together to save the empire they’ve both
worked to build.

Premier business
consultant Simon West can turn around any struggling billion dollar corporation
in New York City, but he can’t get what he wants most: revenge against Mark
DuFord. The slick investment banker's shady dealing led to Simon’s best
friend’s suicide. Wealthy, and well-protected by the political influence he’s
been able to purchase, DuFord has become untouchable—or so he thinks. But when DuFord’s
former girlfriend asks Simon for help, he knows that Grace Bell is the weapon
he needs to finally destroy his enemy completely. All Simon has to do is
pretend to love her.

Grace Bell knows that approaching hot-shot Simon
West to save her business is a long shot, but she’s desperate. After growing up
with a family that expected her to be a happy housewife, she’d proved them all
wrong when she became the go-to event-coordinator in New York City. But after
the tabloids took a completely innocent picture of her with a married senator
and misinterpreted the situation, she’s losing clients left and right. When she
approaches Simon and begs for his help to resuscitate the business she put her
heart and soul into, she never expects him to agree. Or that the payment would
be posing as his lover as an excuse to get close to her ex.

Simon knows if he goes forward with his plan,
it's only a matter of time before Mark realizes what they're up to and Mark’s
enemies have a way ending up broke, in jail or six feet under. As Simon and
Grace grow closer, Simon must decide if putting her in the line of fire is
worth avenging the past.

As the CEO of a
multi-billion dollar retail chain, Victoria Green isn’t used to asking for
help, especially not from too attractive for their own good repairmen like Dean
Carey. After Victoria is attacked at her own party and Dean fights off the
culprit, she’s forced to tell him her secret: Victoria’s father is on his
deathbed, and her brother, who nearly ran the company into the ground, might be
willing to do anything to make sure controlling interest goes to him.

Dean wants nothing to do with the ice princess
CEO, even if he can’t keep his eyes off certain… assets of hers. He’s got
enough on his plate between trying to get enough work to pay the bills and
raising his little sister who’s growing up much too fast for his liking.
Despite his misgivings, when Victoria offers him a blank check if he will keep
his mouth shut about what he saw and shadow her until she can hire a more
qualified bodyguard, he can’t bring himself to turn down that kind of cash.

Over the next few days, Dean learns Victoria
isn’t as cold as he first thought and Victoria realizes that Dean is so much
more than a handyman. But someone wants her dead and if they don’t figure out
who and stop them, they might never get their happily ever after.

Billionaire heiress Emma Devaroux has been living a
safe-yet-mundane existence in Georgia for too long, but when she learns her
sister, Joslyn, has been arrested, she heads to New York City to find out what
really happened. Unfortunately, as an unemployed debutante, she’s not exactly
qualified to be leading an investigation. But help is at hand in the form of
the handsome, former military man Jace Lance who happens to be the one who got
her sister arrested in the first place.

Jace thinks Emma is crazy for even considering
working with him since he’s the one who stopped Joslyn from killing his former
client. However, he can’t deny that the sexy southerner is in over her head
when her tycoon cousins try to hire him to make sure Emma doesn’t find out the
truth about what really caused her sister’s murderous actions.

As they begin to uncover the truth together –and
get to know each other intimately – it becomes clear that the more answers they
get, the more danger Emma is in. Jace is determined to protect her, but how can
he keep her safe when her whole family is in on the conspiracy?

Lacking enough evidence to go the police and not enough money in her bank
account to quit on a moral basis, Lori Briggs is stuck, and it's quite clear
that her boss, the criminal mastermind, intends to start mixing business with
pleasure.

Michael Devereaux will do anything to protect his family's interests--even if
it means posing as a criminal for an undercover FBI operation. He's got to keep
Lori close, and his enemies closer. But when the intimacy with Lori deepens,
Michael must decide what's more important: his family or his heart?

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